From epistemology to sociological pragmatism: towards an assessment of knowledge production
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https://doi.org/10.51281/impa.e022018Keywords:
Construction of Knowledge, Pragmatism, RationalismAbstract
This article established a dialogue on epistemology and evaluates how knowledge production is apprehended in the social sciences, approaching sociological pragmatism to contribute to a more creative and innovative construction of wisdom by questioning rationalism. This literature review debated with authors such as Bachelard, Popper, Kuhn, Agambem, Joas, and Boltanski. The studies agree that scientific knowledge is meant to be questioned/renewed. They see that wisdom produced by non-specialists contributes to the dynamics of knowledge innovation, which is the European sociological pragmatism case, inspired by the Chicago school. It is concluded that pragmatism makes it possible to deconstruct the hierarchy existing in the production of science and to observe that rationalism limits this production by disregarding the body and emotions as constituents of social logic. More studies are needed to make it possible to break, more broadly, with the dualisms of body-mind and reason-emotion, fostering a more creative scientific production.
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